Victor Gabriel, Ph.D.

Victor Gabriel is Chair and Assistant Professor of the Department of Buddhist Chaplaincy at the University of the West. Dr. Gabriel holds an applied masters equivalent in Counseling Psychology from Curtin University, Australia, a Masters in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Buddhist Studies) from University of the West. His dissertation explored how feminist Buddhists found integration and healing through the symbols and images present within the Tibetan Buddhist ritual of Chod. He has had previous experience as a special education teacher and a psychotherapist. He is also a lay minister and a meditation instructor.

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